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Elsewhere! We’re completing compliance testing to deliver to Europe.

The market is anyone who wants a private cloud but isn’t as big as an Amazon or Google who could build it themselves. Seems like a big enough TAM.

$400m of Simpsons references is undeniably a good use of VC.

We've shipped kind of a lot of hardware at this point!

Hit me up @oxidecomputer.com

So while most of the software is open source rather than proprietary, you still have a fair point that customers pay for support (as they do with most enterprise products). One cou…

Oxide uses illumos under the covers That's in no small part due to the composition of the early team--but we have benefitted tremendously from features (ZFS, SMF, FMA, Zones, bhyve…

This implies that the goal of compensation transparency is to satisfy people's curiosity. I don't think that's the case. Regardless of how it's denominated, I think the goal of com…

But the real hero was the person who walked 100 yards to home depot and back with the push broom!

What makes you say that? We talk about salary compensation, yes, but there's also equity compensation.

I can't speak for everyone at Oxide, but I'm practically certain that none of us wants to live in Sunnyvale.

Several mistakes here, perhaps most egregious: Sun Microsystems might have made some people rich but that was looooong loooooong ago.

Which is $167,202 in pre-pandemic, inflation-adjusted dollars.

Equity is mentioned in the previous post: > Some will say that we should be talking about equity, not cash compensation. While it’s true that startup equity is important, it’s also…

I didn't watch it in its entirety, but I'm familiar with Allan's work. There doesn't seem to be anything fundamental to the design of ZFS that his talk highlights as limiting, but …

The claim is Collison directly to them: > Synadia CEO Derek Collison told Runtime Tuesday that the company intends to transfer the NATS trademark to the CNCF at some point in the f…

Embarrassed to say I had forgotten writing that and LOLed myself… no more reliable audience for your sense of humor than yourself!

Maybe! Bryan and I were pretty close to the case and to the implementation of ZFS. But maybe Apple did detect some smoking gun of which somehow we were unaware. I (still) think Jon…

Seems specious. Patents don't preclude one from overtly trying to compete; they protect specific mechanisms. In this case either ZFS didn't use the same mechanisms or the mechanism…

It was! And Apple seemed fine with including DTrace under the CDDL. I’m not sure why Apple wanted some additional arrangement but they did.

I don’t recall that being the case. Bonwick had been thinking about ZFS for at least a couple of years. Matt Ahrens joined Sun (with me) in 2001. The Afara acquisition didn’t close…

Certainly one would build something different starting in 2025 rather than 2001, but do you have specific examples of how ZFS’s design holds it back? I think it has been adapted ex…

ZFS was developed in Solaris, and at the time we were mostly selling SPARC systems. That changed rapidly and the biggest commercial push was in the form of the ZFS Storage Applianc…

Back in 2016, Ars Technica picked up this piece from my blog [1] as well as a longer piece reviewing the newly announced APFS [2] [3]. Glad it's still finding an audience! [1]: htt…